Licensed plumbers for Canby homes and buildings, with a written price before work starts and a 1-year workmanship warranty.
Free on-site estimates · 24/7 dispatch · 1-year workmanship warranty
Canby Area Response
6920 NE 42nd Ave
Oregon and Washington
29 Years of Excellence
Every Project, Guaranteed
Drain cleaning and hydro jetting, sewer line repair and trenchless replacement, repiping, water heaters, backflow testing, leak detection, excavation, vac truck work and 24/7 emergency response, on city sewer parcels and on acreage alike.
Rooter service, high-pressure jetting, sewer camera inspection, and preventative maintenance programs.
Repair and replacement for tank, tankless and heat pump units. Permit pulled, seismic strapping, expansion tank and venting all done to Oregon code.
Installation, repair, maintenance, leak detection, and water service. Includes backflow testing and sump pump service. Licensed plumbers available 24/7.
Site work, grading, trenching, sewer rehab, pipe bursting, concrete, and demolition.
Hydro excavation, stormwater maintenance, debris extraction, waste removal, and confined space support.
Spot repairs, full lateral replacement, and trenchless options that skip the trench.
PEX and copper replacement for galvanized, polybutylene and failing copper supply.
HDD, trenchless conduit installation. PGE Certified. .75” to 24”+.
Emergency extraction, structural drying, mold remediation, and restoration.
Faucets, toilets, sinks, tub hardware and the pipe behind them.
When disaster strikes a commercial property, time is the most critical asset. Whether it’s a burst water pipe flooding a multifamily complex in the middle of the night, a clogged drain causing a severe backup at a hospitality venue, or urgent water damage requiring immediate structural drying, our emergency response teams are available around the clock.
Ignoring a slow drain, a minor leak, or standing water rapidly leads to accelerated deterioration of a building’s sewer line or structural foundation. Symptoms worsen exponentially, often resulting in backups that cause serious, costly damage to the building and expose ownership to significant liability.
Because we offer a complete suite of services under one roof, you never have to scramble to find a plumber, then an excavation crew, and then a mitigation team. One call to Lovett Services dispatches the right experts and the right equipment to your Canby property immediately.
Crews deployed around the clock for commercial emergencies. No waiting until morning.
Plumbing, excavation, mitigation, vac truck. One dispatcher, one team, one call.
Licensed in Oregon and fully insured for all commercial, civil, and mitigation work.
Every project backed by our guarantee: if it fails within a year, we fix it free.
The conditions above hold for any property in the area. What is different for a house is the order of the questions and what you are left holding at the end.
What your property is connected to, city sewer or septic, and how old the house is. Those two answers narrow the likely cause faster than anything else in Canby. On a septic parcel you get everything up to the tank, stated clearly, because Lovett does not pump tanks, service fields or drill wells.
A licensed technician, shoe covers and drop cloths inside, and your shut off and cleanout located before work begins. On acreage the buried run gets located before any digging. You see the camera screen alongside the technician rather than getting a description of it afterwards.
Canby requires a site plan release letter from the city before Clackamas County issues the permit. We handle that sequence, book the inspection and hand over the closed permit. Skipping the release letter is the most common reason a Canby job stalls before it starts.
Canby is about 25 miles south of the Lovett yard, close enough for normal dispatch, and your emergencies run through 24/7 dispatch the same as anywhere else on the map. If water is running now, close your main first, then call 971-204-8148. Every job you book carries a one year workmanship warranty.
Successfully managing commercial properties in the Pacific Northwest requires a deep understanding of local environmental factors and infrastructure demands. Canby experiences heavy seasonal rainfall, which places immense pressure on commercial storm water facilities, catch basins, and municipal drainage systems. Our teams are highly experienced in mitigating these weather impacts, providing reliable preventative maintenance to ensure your property properly diverts heavy rain and avoids standing water or flooding.
Beyond the weather, we are adept at navigating the specific logistical challenges of working within Canby’s mix of growing multifamily developments, active industrial parks, and established municipal properties. We know that construction and heavy maintenance cannot bring your daily operations to a standstill. Our project managers coordinate scheduling and access carefully, ensuring that heavy equipment operations, excavation, and directional drilling are executed without disrupting local traffic patterns, tenant access, or business continuity.
When disaster strikes a commercial property in Canby, time is the most critical asset. Whether it’s a burst water pipe flooding a multifamily complex in the middle of the night, a clogged kitchen line causing a severe backup, or urgent water damage requiring immediate structural drying, our emergency response teams are available around the clock. Because we offer a complete suite of services under one roof, one call to Lovett Services dispatches the right experts and the right equipment to your Canby property immediately.
We serve Canby and the surrounding Clackamas County area. Nearby communities we also serve:
When a critical system fails, every minute matters. Our 24/7 dispatch model means fully equipped technicians arrive fast: a pipe burst at a Canby multifamily complex or a collapsed sewer at an industrial park.
From the initial emergency repair through water damage mitigation to final site cleanup, one accountable team manages the entire project lifecycle. No juggling multiple vendors. No communication gaps.
Fully licensed, bonded, and insured. We stand behind every project with a full 1-year warranty. Exceptional construction and maintenance backed by a commitment to your total peace of mind.
Real reviews from property managers and business owners across the Pacific Northwest.
“These guys were extraordinary, Gary and his crew worked through the night to restore water and sewage to 26 homes. A dedicated crew that didn’t clock out until every house was up and running.”
Columbia Way West
“We use Lovett often, always calling when we’re in a pinch. The team always steps up. Ken and Andrew always come through, 100% of the time. There is nothing these guys can’t do.”
Multi-Family Property Owner
“As a facilities professional it’s always a pleasure to work with contractors who know their business. Charges were in line with expectations and the quality was first rate. An outstanding choice.”
Facilities Professional
Canby is a city, a set of rural parcels and a farming landscape sharing one boundary, and the plumbing follows that split exactly. A downtown house, a 1980s ranch in Central Canby, a custom build on acreage in the northwest and a riverfront property in the south all present different problems and different constraints. The eight topics below are what we actually check before pricing anything here.
Before anything else we establish what the property is connected to, because it changes the work, the permitting and who else has to be involved. Parcels inside the built up part of the city are on municipal sewer. Outlying parcels, especially the riverfront ground in South Canby and the surrounding agricultural land, are commonly on well and septic. Clackamas County maintains more than 9,000 septic systems and Canby area riverfront systems are among the older ones flagged for repair. Confirming service per parcel takes one call and prevents a truck arriving to do work that cannot be done that way.
You deserve a straight answer here, because the wrong expectation wastes everybody’s day. Lovett does not pump septic tanks, service drain fields or drill wells. What you can book on a septic property is everything upstream of the tank: the building drains, the fixture and supply work, the line running from the house out toward the tank, leak detection, water heaters, repiping, and camera inspection of the building sewer to establish where a blockage actually is. If the problem turns out to be the tank or field, you hear that plainly and you call the right trade.
Canby does not run its own building department. The city contracts building services to Clackamas County, and a site plan release letter from the city has to come first before the county issues the permit. That sequence is the single most common cause of a delayed start on a Canby job, and it is entirely avoidable. Lovett handles the submission chain and the inspection booking rather than leaving it with you, and hands you the closed permit at the end. It applies to water heater replacements, repipes, sewer lateral replacements and new water services.
The largest single housing cohort in Canby runs from 1970 to 1999, concentrated through Central Canby and mostly ranch stock. That band overlaps the years polybutylene supply pipe was installed, roughly 1978 to the mid 1990s. Polybutylene is gray or blue flexible plastic and fails at its fittings rather than along its length, which means the failure tends to be sudden rather than a slow visible drip. It is also often difficult to insure. Houses in the same band are typically on their third or fourth water heater by now, and their original angle stops have usually seized.
A smaller pocket of Canby’s housing predates 1960, sitting in and around the downtown area. In that stock we expect galvanized steel supply and cast iron drains. Galvanized corrodes from the inside out, so the complaint is falling pressure and rust colored water rather than a leak. Cast iron drains grow rough walled and begin catching waste. Neither improves on its own, and on a house that has already had two or three localized repairs a whole house repipe is usually the better arithmetic over any sensible time horizon.
Around 64 percent of Canby housing is single family detached, and NW Canby and Northwood Estates add custom builds on acreage. Acreage changes buried work substantially. A lateral or a water service on a large parcel is a long run, which means more joints, more ground movement across the length, and a much larger area to search if something is leaking underground. The line gets located before anything is dug, every time. Long runs are also where trenchless methods and directional drilling earn their place, because opening several hundred feet of trench across your working property is rarely the right answer.
The Willamette forms the north and west boundary of the city, the Molalla comes in from the south and west, and Molalla River State Park sits at that end of town. Properties in that part of Canby are the ones most likely to be on well and septic, and they are also the ones most likely to have irrigation. Any testable backflow assembly protecting the public supply, including on lawn irrigation, fire sprinklers, boilers or a property combining a well with city water, has to be tested annually by an Oregon Health Authority certified tester with the report filed to the water provider. Our testers are state certified to test and file.
About a third of Canby housing was built in 2000 or later, and newer stock has its own short list. Supply material is modern, so repiping is rarely the conversation. What does come up is the sewer lateral, because a line laid twenty years ago across fill that is still settling develops bellies and offset joints earlier than owners expect. Water heaters installed with the house are now at the end of a normal eight to twelve year tank life. And backflow assemblies fitted at construction still need their annual certified test, which is the item most often forgotten on a newer property.
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Emergency Service
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We serve Canby and the surrounding Clackamas County area. Nearby communities we also serve:
Yes, we offer rapid 24-hour emergency plumbing response for commercial, industrial, and multifamily properties in Canby. Our goal is to minimize your operational downtime, stop leaks at the source, and prevent extensive building damage.
Our horizontal directional drilling allows us to install sewer, water, and PGE-certified power lines under obstacles like driveways, roads, and parking lots without disturbing the surface. This saves you significant money on hardscape restoration and prevents traffic or tenant disruption during the installation process.
Absolutely. Lovett Services operates with total professionalism and accountability, holding . We regularly provide public works preparation, complex site grading, and advanced sanitary sewer rehabilitation for municipal and commercial projects.
Our comprehensive vac truck fleet handles everything from safe utility potholing and powerful hydro jetting to commercial storm filter cartridge replacement. We also manage reliable to general liquid waste removal.
Yes. We work closely with property managers to develop scheduled preventative maintenance programs covering high-pressure jetting, sewer line scoping, and backflow testing. Proactive maintenance helps you avoid costly emergency repairs and keeps your building systems operating efficiently.
No. The City of Canby contracts building services to Clackamas County, and the city requires a site plan release letter before the county will issue the permit. That two step sequence catches people out regularly and is the most common reason a Canby job does not start on the day it was meant to. We handle the release letter and the county submission, book the inspection and hand over the closed permit at the end.
Everything upstream of the tank: building drains, the line running from the house toward the tank, fixture and supply work, leak detection, water heaters, repiping and camera inspection of the building sewer to find where a blockage actually sits. Lovett does not pump septic tanks, service drain fields or drill wells. If your problem turns out to be the tank or the field, you hear that straight away rather than after a day of work. Outlying Canby parcels, particularly toward the rivers, are commonly on septic, and Clackamas County maintains more than 9,000 systems with some older Canby area riverfront systems flagged for repair.
The supply material first. The 1970 to 1999 band is the largest housing cohort in Canby and it overlaps the years polybutylene pipe was installed, roughly 1978 to the mid 1990s. Polybutylene is gray or blue flexible plastic that fails at its fittings rather than along its length, which is why the failure tends to be sudden, and it is often hard to insure. After that, the water heater, since a tank lasts about eight to twelve years, and the angle stops, which seize in exactly that age of house.
If the assembly is testable and it protects the public water supply, yes. Oregon requires annual testing by an Oregon Health Authority certified tester, with the report filed to your water provider, and failing to test on time can lead the provider to shut service off. The common cases are lawn irrigation and sprinkler systems, fire sprinkler systems, boilers, and properties combining a well with city water, all of which are well represented around Canby. Our testers are state certified to test and to submit the result.
Usually. On acreage the lateral is a long run, and opening several hundred feet of trench across a working property means reinstating all of it afterwards. Trenchless pipe bursting pulls a new line along the existing route through two pits, and directional drilling installs a new line on a new route without opening the ground between the entry and exit points. A camera run and a locate come first, because a severe belly or a collapsed section can rule trenchless out, and you hear that before the work starts rather than partway through.
Tell us the property and what is happening. Dispatch reads every request and the right crew calls you back.
Read by our dispatch team, normally answered within one business day. For an active leak or backup, call 971-204-8148 instead.
971-204-8148. A live dispatcher answers 24/7, including weekends and holidays.
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6920 NE 42nd Ave
Portland, OR 97218
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